“In the end the fate of the life’s work of Marshall Frady, an early proponent of ‘new journalism’ and a biographer of Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, the Rev. Billy Graham and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, came down to 15 minutes in a windowless room in Midtown on Wednesday. There, 123 boxes of Mr. Frady’s papers … were auctioned off to Emory University for $10,100.”